This is a bit of a mind experiment but I am curious what others here think about this.
If Q wasn't a part of the equation, what fictional dystopia would we be heading toward? I'm talk books, movies, video games, etc. Brazil? 1984? Hunger Games? Gattaca? Omega Man?
Let me know what you think and why.
Their problem was they didn't know how to identify the ones that had control. So they just tried to get rid of all of them.
We have it all.